Foucault stays within necessity without founding violence, unlike Derrida’s leap toward freedom

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If this sounds too much like the provisional beginnings celebrated everywhere in deconstruction, starting with “The Discourse on Method” in Of Grammatology, let me assure you that, even for a reader like me, Foucault is not Derrida, nor Derrida Foucault. I cannot find anywhere in Foucault the thought of a founding violence. To quote Marx where one should not, Foucault always remains within the realm of necessity (even in the clinamen to his last phase) whereas Derrida makes for the realm of freedom, only to fall on his face (C3, 959). I would not choose between the two. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1195

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• XREF: The necessity/freedom split has direct bearing on my collapse question — does ironic essentialism demand the Derridean ‘realm of freedom’ that cannot be sustained collectivity?